Senior Technical Account Manager

Medidata: Power Smarter Treatments and Healthier People

Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of people. Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. More than one million registered users across 2,000+ customers and partners access the world's most trusted platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Known for its ground-breaking technological innovations, Medidata has supported more than 30,000 clinical trials and 9 million study participants. And Medidata’s ongoing commitment to infusing the patient voice into trial designs and solutions is helping to create a better and more inclusive experience for all participants in clinical studies. Medidata is involved in nearly 40% of company-initiated trial starts globally, with studies conducted in more than 140 countries. More than 70% of novel drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2022 were developed with Medidata software. Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the world to meet the needs of its customers. Discover more at www.medidata.com and follow us @medidata.

Job Description:

Your Mission:

The Technical Account Management Function initiates and facilitates support related discussions with assigned customers and develops strong relationships with key customer contacts. The focus of work is in delivering services which include troubleshooting, problem resolution, strategic planning, and proactive account management from a support perspective. This support and advisory role contribute to improving a client’s overall customer experience with Medidata.

Your Commitments: 

·        Respond to customer inquiries to determine appropriate resolution path or service improvement strategies

·        The Technical Account Manager will meet with customers directly to facilitate the best approach for customer’s internal practices while deploying additional Medidata products into their organization. 

·        Maintain product, platform, and industry knowledge necessary to offer broad support to customers increasing the ability to recognize new business opportunities

·        Facilitate strategic account discussions in conjunction with Sales and Professional Services, to ensure a positive customer experience

·        Develop and foster relationships with named client personnel for assigned accounts

·        Work with other Medidata departments to meet service goals and achieve service level agreements (SLAs). 

·        Work with technical support team to ensure full understanding of client requirements and needs per market segment.

·        Work with customers and/or partners to receive accurate information used to analyze and diagnose product and service issues 

·        Perform regular analysis of support issues to help determine and improve a customer’s satisfaction status 

·        Responsible for performing negative survey follow ups for assigned customers through outbound phone call

·        Maintain confidentiality of any negative customer feedback resulting from negative survey follow-ups

·        Monitor customer satisfaction and net promoter score to ensure company goals are met and create action plan if score is trending downwards

·        Perform monthly trending to identify process improvements within Medidata or the customer/partner.

·        Provide reports to management and customers as necessary and to fulfill any contractual obligations 

·        Identify, document, research and resolve service and product issues, questions, and concerns in a timely manner 

·        Coordinate support resources for escalated issues, working in partnership with Tier 1 Helpdesk, Technical Support, Professional Services, and/or Product Development/Delivery teams 

·        Inform and instruct key contacts, as appropriate, on new products, features and best practices 

·        Participate, as needed, in the development of product documentation, User Manuals, Training Presentations, Exercises, Quick Reference Guides and Other Support Materials 

·        Maintain client specific data in appropriate Tracking Systems or reporting systems.

·        Documents customer information and recurring technical issues to support product quality programs and product development

Your Competencies:

·        5+ years Experience in working in Customer Service customer facing environment supporting software or SaaS applications/technology/service offerings 

·        Minimum 5 years of business experience

·        Experience in the Pharmaceutical/Healthcare/Clinical industry a strong plus

·        Experience in people management

·        Exceptional communication skills (oral/written)

·        Exceptional presentation skills

·        Technology and PC skills including full MS Office package (Word, Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint), Google Suite, help desk/issue resolution systems, CRM 

·        Travel availability 10-20%, international travel may be required; overnight and/or weekend travel may be required

·        May be required to provide support after hours based on client need

Your Education & Experience:

·        College degree (Bachelor of Science, Business, Management, Computer Science or similar field)

·        Inside Sales, and/or Training (preferred information technology, pharmaceutical industry, clinical trials, regulatory, or medical field experience.)

·        Background in account management and client relationship development